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支付宝借苹果进军美国市场
Alipay, the Chinese digital payment giant owned by ecommerce giant Alibaba, is expanding in the US.
支付宝是中国数字支付的巨头，为电子商务巨头阿里巴巴旗下产品。它正在进军美国市场。
Customers will be able to use Alipay at about 4 million businesses after a deal was signed with credit card processing service First Data.
在与美国第一资讯集团就信用卡处理服务签署协议后，顾客将可在超过四百万宗交易中使用支付宝进行支付。
The deal is chiefly aimed at Chinese tourists visiting North America.
此次商业活动主要针对前往北美的中国游客。
It follows a small trial in California and New York, and brings Alipay into direct competition with the likes of ApplePay, Android Pay and PayPal.
在进行完加利福尼亚和纽约两州的审查之后，支付宝将可以投入使用，并将直面来自Applepay(苹果旗下)、Android Pay(谷歌旗下)和PayPal(eBay旗下)这三款软件的挑战。
Along with rival WeChat, Alipay dominates the Chinese mobile payments market, and both firms are looking to increase their presence abroad.
支付宝和其竞争对手微信两大公司盘踞着中国移动交易市场，并都在尝试扩展他们的海外知名度。
But there are also signs of US firms in the same industry looking for opportunities in China.
但也有迹象表明在相同领域中的美国公司也正在拓展其在中国的机会。
In February, Apple teamed up with China’s state-owned bankcard association, China Union Pay, allowing the lender’s cardholders to use ApplePay.
二月，苹果公司和中国国有银行卡公司中国银联进行合作，将允许贷方的信用卡持有者使用ApplePay。
Globally Alipay has about 450 million customers. As well as online payments and money transfers, users can also hail a taxi, book a hotel and buy movie tickets directly from the within the app.
在国际上支付宝已经有了四千五百万的用户。顾客们不只可以在在线支付和资金调动上使用这款软件，还可以直接用这款软件叫出租、订旅店和买电影票。
Owned by Jack Ma’s Ant Financial, it is Alibaba’s digital payments arm.
支付宝是蚂蚁金融服务集团旗下产品，是阿里巴巴的数字支付的得力武器。
Earlier this year Ant Financial bought US-based MoneyGram for $880m (?700m). MoneyGram has about 350,000 outlets in nearly 200 countries. That takeover is under review, and needs regulatory approval from the US Committee on Foreign Investment.
今年早些时候，蚂蚁金服以8800万美金(7000万英镑)的成交价格收购了美国速汇金公司。速汇金公司在近200个国家中有约35万个网店。此次交接仍处于审查中，并且需要美国外资委员会的监管部门的批准。
来源:BBC